Having little ones in the house, the excitement is building for the Easter bunny. If you have older kids, having them color Easter eggs with food coloring, or dye kits might be the way to go. But when they’re too young to handle dipping hard-boiled eggs, give them a paper egg to decorate. Try one of these easy Easter crafts.
Coffee Filter Easter Eggs
What You’ll Need:
Cone-shaped Paper Coffee Filters
Food Coloring
Eye Droppers and Straws
Cut out egg shapes from coffee filters (Cone shaped filters will give you 2 good sized eggs). Mix water and food coloring in a baby food jar, or small bowl. Do this for each color you have. Let the children use eyedroppers or straws to drip colors on the filter shape. The colors will run together and make beautiful eggs.
A variation of this is to speckle the eggs by having your child blow through the straw after it’s been dipped in the colored water. This method could be a little messier, so you’ll want to make sure you’ve laid newspaper or paper towels down first.
Cotton Ball Easter Eggs
What You’ll Need:
8.5 x 11 in. white construction paper
Pastel colored cotton balls
Child safe scissors
Stick glue
Fold the construction paper in half length wise. Cut out a half oval shape along the non-folded edge, making sure that one end is cut a little flat (pointed/oval at the top, flat/rounded on the bottom). You can draw it out with a pencil first to help with the cutting. Open your paper and it should look like an egg (this is similar to cutting out a valentine heart).
To decorate: Spread a thin layer of glue on sections of the egg and apply various colored cotton balls, continue until the entire egg is covered. Try putting the colored cotton balls on in some type of pattern.
Let dry and hang on wall or refrigerator for all to see!
Easter Egg Collage
What You’ll Need:
8.5×11 in. white, or pastel construction paper
crayons, markers, water colors
glitter and more
Give each child a large egg shape cut from construction paper. Have the children decorate with anything (glitter, sequins, scrap fabric, foil, buttons, crayons, markers).
